boss
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- (countable) Your boss is the person who tells you what to do at work.
- My former boss was very happy for the chance to fire me.
- I started the company because I wanted to be my own boss.
- (countable) A boss is a leader in an organisation.
- The Mayor was an old-style political boss who made his own decisions.
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- (transitive) If you boss somebody around/about, you tell them what to do, especially when you don't have any special power to do so.
- This was just another occasion when Indians were bossed around by white people.
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- (slang) If something is boss, it is very good.